"Stick to spin buddy. You can't bowl fast, you're pathetic. You wet your bed until you were 10, you think you can bowl to Test quality batsman with your trudging inaccurate medium pace? You wouldn't make the Aussie U-13 with the 'pace' you display. You're an embarrassment to world cricket and your country. Why not do something useful and learn how to chuck the doosra?"

Originally Posted by KungFu_Kallis

Peter Siddle top scores in both innings....... Matthew Wade gets out twice in one ball

SS, I have a feeling your son will be just like you and he'll end up owning your ass.
Here's to his becoming a fast bowler and pissing the hell out of you.

Several reasons why that won't happen:

A) He is Indian, therefore he won't be able to bowl pace all that well.
B) I'm his father, so he won't be all that athletic or tall
C) I won't be able to stop laughing at him or stop myself from taunting him while he is growing up trying to bowl fast, so it will ruin his confidence

So his best chance would be if my wife has an affair with Curtly Ambrose or something.

Which by the way, I would fully endorse if it means India can finally get a non-crap fast bowler. I'd even pay for her plane ticket and hotel fees for the trip to the west indies.

A) He is Indian, therefore he won't be able to bowl pace all that well.
B) I'm his father, so he won't be all that athletic or tall
C) I won't be able to stop laughing at him or stop myself from taunting him while he is growing up trying to bowl fast, so it will ruin his confidence

So his best chance would be if my wife has an affair with Curtly Ambrose or something.

Which by the way, I would fully endorse if it means India can finally get a non-crap fast bowler. I'd even pay for her plane ticket and hotel fees for the trip to the west indies.

Now that's commitment.

I hope you realize that the Ambrose child would just end up playing for the West Indies.
You'd lose your wife to an old black man without getting anything in return.

If I saw an opposing batsmen being deeply affected by the death of a pigeon, I'd have enough sledging material to last a lifetime. And I'd make him bat on too. Water?

Oh man, I really hope thats not true, because I hold Kapil Dev as one of my heroes.

ss, u really need to be an Indian who lives in India to understand what it means for normal people here when you kill a living thing. I suppose there is a bit of hypocrisy here in that u probably won't expect Kapil to feel this way if he were to kill a mosquito or an ant (they are living things too), but you hit a stroke and it kills a beautiful bird, most normal human beings will be shaken up by it.

And secondly, I have been corrected by my uncle regarding this. Being shaken up wasn't the only reason Kapil asked for some water. According to Indian tradition, you tend to take a shower to cleanse yourself of the sin if you happen to kill a living thing and it seems Kapil wanted to just pour a bottle of water over his head for that too. Anyways, AB was a major jerk that day and I still hate him for it.

And about Ponting, Nnanden, I just used that example to show that he is a tool. But I guess everyone around here knows it anyways. So we will leave it at that.

And the reason I brought it up now is that Harmison has said that it is his one regret from the last Ashes in a recent interview.

We miss you, Fardin. :(. RIP.

Originally Posted by vic_orthdox

In the end, I think it's so utterly, incomprehensibly boring. There is so much context behind each innings of cricket that dissecting statistics into these small samples is just worthless. No-one has ever been faced with the same situation in which they come out to bat as someone else. Ever.